Toilet kit



DISKEN July 6, 1926.

TOILET KIT Filed August 25, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR 5M QJAFM/ July 6 1926.

5. DISKiN TOILET KIT Filed August 25, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTQR ATO EY Patented July 6, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,591,515 PATENT oFFIcE.

SAUL DISKIN, OF BRONX, NEW YORK.

Application filed August 25, 1925.

This invention relates to improvements in toilet kits, particularly for travellers, and has as one of its objects the provision of a sanitary kit or case fitted with all the mod.- ern requisites desirable in the performance of a persons toilet, each article being so secured as to be instantly accessible, but prevented from becoming confused by jostling, severe handling or complete overturning.

A further feature is in the provision of means whereby the tray, on which certain of the articles are confined, may be brought into convenient position for use, or firmly held in the bottom of the case at will, said case being substantially dust proof when closed, furnished with a normally flat carrying handle and provided with an effective locking means.

Another aim is to provide novel devices for securing certain of the articles that require no unfastening, but which perform their functions in an eflicient manner.

These and other meritorious features, which will become apparent as the description progresses, are accomplished by the novcl construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, constituting an important part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of an embodiment of the invention showing the cover raised and the tray as disposed within the body.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the same, with one of the walls partially broken away to show the interior, the tray being in its lower position.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on line 33 of Figure 1, with the tray raised.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the kit casing when open, and the tray lowered.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates in general an oblong rectangular boxlike structure composed of well seasoned wood 11 encased in an ornamental covering of leather 12 and having a similar lining 13 throughout.

Connected by hinges 14 is a cover 15 having a wooden frame 16, and leather cover and lining respectively 17 and 18.

The side and front walls of the body resent bevelled edges 19 and the cerrespon .ing edges 20 of the cover are bevelled sample a TOILET KIT.

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menta-ry thereto, so that a substantially dust tight joint I is afforded when the cover is closed.

Snap locks 21, arranged on the front wall of the body, spaced near its ends, are engageable with pivoted hasps 22 carried on the cover thus providing means for maintaining the cover in closed position during storage and carriage.

Between the locks are secured headed 'studs'28 having flattened shanks which pass through elongated narrow slots 24 in the end portions of a flexible carrying-handle 25, the arrangement being such that the'handle is held by the heads of the studs in close relation to the front wall, the handle however being readily accessible and when raised affording ample room for a hand.

On the inner side of the cover, at a point near its free edge is secured two parallel clips 2627 of flexible material, as leather, these clips being held at their outer edges only and present a narrow parallel space between their free edges, permitting the instant removal of a long thin object, as the comb shows, in a particularly convenient manner.

Below these. clips, near the opposite edge of the cover, is an elongated socket 528, into which mirror may be inserted, the easellik'e supports of which are outbowed near their lower portions and passed through the bight of a loop 29 fixed to the inner face of the cover and affording an effective securing means which readily yields upon application of force in entering or removing the mirror.

Other sockets and loops are provided to secure commonly used toilet articles, as nail file, nail'clip, scissors, etc., as may be desired.

F ixed vertically in the rear corners of the body 15 are posts 80 of triangular cross section, their upper, endsbeing slightly below the upper edges of the side and rear walls and their lower ends spaced as at 31 from the bottom wall orflooring of the body.

Extending inwardly from the front wall, slightly below its upper bevelled edge, are two lugs 32, spaced apart as shown and curved to blend into the wall at points below their level upper surfaces, and it is to be understood that these posts and projections are covered by the lining of the body throughout.

A thin fiat tray 33 having a bevelled rear edge 34: is eovei'red on both sides with leather 35 in with the casing, this tray plate corresponding in dimensions with the interior of the body.

A strip of leather or flexible fabric 36 is secured at one edge to the inner lower corner of the case and at the other edge to the bevelled edge of the tray, this strip beingof sufficient width to permit raising of the tray from the bottom of the body to rest at its rear corners upon the posts 30 and at its front edge on the projecting lugs 32.

Attached to the front edge of the tray is a flexible tab 37, normally extending upward into position to be conveniently grasped when it is desired to raise the tray.

Although said tab is flexible it is also suf fieiently firm to support one element '38 of a snap fastener, the mating element 39 being fixed to the inner surface of the front wall of the body, at the center of its length.

In raising the tray 33, the snap fastener element 38 is released from the mating member 39 and hen the tab 37 is used as a pull to first raise and then draw the tray to the front, from underthe corner posts 30, to rest over the front edge of the casing, thereafter being-grasped by the hands and moved back to seat on the tops of the posts 30 at its rear edge and on the lugs 32 at its front edge.

This tab acts not only as a means for withdrawing the tray and of maneuvering it into either of its ultimate positions, but also operates, when the snap fasteners are engaged, to confine the tray in its retracted or lowered position.

Fixed on the upper surface of the tray are a variety of securing elements to engage and retain the miscellany of toilet articles shown, and which are obviously easily accessible when the tray is in a raised position as illustrated in Figure 1.

Although theforegoing is descriptive of the preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be apparent that minor changes may be made in its construction, without the exercise of invention or conflicting with the scope of the claims hereto appended.

Having thus doscribedmy invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A travelling kit comprising a hollow body and a hollow cover hingedly engaged thereto, a tray flexibly hinged in said body, means for normally retaining said tray in the lower portion of said body, means for withdrawing said tray, and means for supporting the tray level with the upper edges of said body.

2. A travelling kit comprising a hollow body and a hollow cover hingedly engaged thereto, triangular posts fixed in the rear corners of said case, said posts being spaced from the bottom wall thereof and from its upper edge, projections extending inward from the front wall of the case level with the upper ends of said posts, a flat tray adapted to engage below said posts when in its lower position and rest on said posts and. said projections when in its higher position, a flexible strip connectingthe rear edge of said tray with the inner lower corner of the case, a flexible tab fixed on the front edge of the tray to extend into position for operation, and a snap fastener to retain said tab against the front wall of the case.

3. A toilet travelling case comprising a hollow rectangular body, a cover hinged thereto, a tray normally held within said body, means for raising said tray, means for supporting said tray when raised level with the edges of said body, means on said cover and tray to removably retain miscellaneous toilet articles, means eo-operative between said body and cover to render the case substantially dust proof, means for locking the case, and a handle for carrying the case.

at. In a travelling case, a pair of resilient flaps secured at their-outer edges in opposed relation to a supporting surface of said case and presenting a slit between their adjacent free edges, said flaps adapted to retain a thin article between their inner faces and said. supporting surface, said flaps being flexible to permit ready removal of said article by direct movement away from the supporting surface, said flaps lying substantially parallel to the supportingsurface except during the removal of the article.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this application.

SAUL DISKIN. 

